You may be familiar with the classical paintings of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. These iconic paintings were used by Russian artist Svetlana Petrova as the subject of her creative works – with her fat cat as the main attraction. Zarathustra, a ginger cat, was inherited by Svetlana from her late mother.
She then started to work on her project which she calls the “Fat Cat Art”. Making use of Photoshop, she creatively added her well-loved cat into some of the timeless masterpieces and somehow made each each piece look even better.
Here are some images of these recreated portraits:
#1. American Gothic by Grant Wood (1930)
#2. Bogatyrs (Heroes) by Victor Vasnetsov (1898)
#3. Escaping Criticism by Pere Borrell del Caso (1874)
#4. Lady with an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci (1489–1490)
#5. Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix (1830)
#6. Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci (1503-1506)
#7. Olympia by Édouard Manet (1863)
#8. The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli (1486)
#9. The Creation of Adam is a fresco painting by Michelangelo (1511-1512)
#10. The Kitchen Maid by Johannes Vermeer (1657–1658)
#11. The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí (1931)
#12. The Venus of Urbino by Titian (1538)
#13. Twelfth Night (The King Drinks) by David Teniers (1634-1640)
#14. Whistler’s Mother by James McNeill Whistler (1871)
If you’re in UK and would love to see Svetlana Petrova’s works, visit in the “Russian Extremes – From Icons to I-Cats” exhibition at the Barn at Stonehill in Oxfordshire, which will run until June 5, 2014.